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AI in Financial Services in 5 Stories

AI in Financial Services in 5 Stories – Week Ending July 3, 2026

Welcome to AI in Financial Services in 5 Stories. A practical weekly roundup of the five most important AI developments affecting banking, insurance, payments, asset management, and fintech. Each Friday, Tom Fox will break down the top stories that matter most through the lenses of compliance, risk management, governance, and business strategy. Designed for compliance professionals, executives, legal teams, and financial services leaders, it goes beyond headlines to explain why each development matters in a highly regulated industry. The result is a concise weekly briefing that helps listeners stay current on AI innovation while asking sharper questions about oversight, accountability, and trust.

This week’s stories include the following:

  1. The future of AI in banking. (TheFinancialBrand)
  2. AI and global bankers. (Reuters)
  3. AI Playbook for financial services. (WEF)
  4. Trusted data in workflow. (Microsoft)
  5. Agentic AI in post-trade workflows. (FinTechFutures)

For more information on the use of AI in Compliance programs, Tom Fox’s new book, Upping Your Game, is available. You can purchase a copy of the book on Amazon.com.

To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out Tom’s latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on Amazon.com.

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AI Today in 5

AI Today in 5: June 30, 2026, The Unknown Unknowns Edition

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 stories about AI to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to AI Today In 5. All, from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider five stories from the business world, compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest about AI.

Top AI stories include:

  1. Next-gen compliance for the AI era. (FinTechGlobal)
  2. The unknown unknowns of using AI at work. (NYT)
  3. BIS sees peril in AI investment boom. (WSJ)
  4. Using Agentic AI to close compliance alerts. (CPAvPracticevAdvisor)
  5. AI offers a bridge between provider, payor, and patient. (Healthcare Finance)

For more information on the use of AI in compliance programs, Tom Fox’s new book, Upping Your Game, is available. You can purchase a copy of the book on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out Tom’s latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

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AI in Financial Services in 5 Stories

AI in Financial Services in 5 Stories – Week Ending June 12, 2026

Welcome to AI in Financial Services in 5 Stories. A practical weekly roundup of the five most important AI developments affecting banking, insurance, payments, asset management, and fintech. Each Friday, Tom Fox will break down the top stories that matter most through the lenses of compliance, risk management, governance, and business strategy. Designed for compliance professionals, executives, legal teams, and financial services leaders, it goes beyond headlines to explain why each development matters in a highly regulated industry. The result is a concise weekly briefing that helps listeners stay current on AI innovation while asking sharper questions about oversight, accountability, and trust.

This week’s stories include the following:

  1. AMLA as a single financial crimes tool in the EU.(FinTechGlobal)
  2. Is your bank ready for Agentic AI? (OpenTextBlog)
  3. Will AI help women in financial services? (FinTechMagazine)
  4. The next changes in banking will not be about tech. (TheFinancialBrand)
  5. Bank CEOs brush off AI cash optimization. (BankingDive)

For more information on the use of AI in Compliance programs, Tom Fox’s new book, Upping Your Game, is available. You can purchase a copy of the book on Amazon.com.

To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out Tom’s latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on Amazon.com.

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AI Today in 5

AI Today in 5: June 9, 2026, The OpenAI Files to go Public Edition

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 stories about AI to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to AI Today In 5. All, from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider five stories from the business world, compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest about AI.

Top AI stories include:

  1. AI-ready compliance for reg tech. (FinTechGlobal)
  2. AI agents under antitrust scrutiny. (NYT)
  3. Procurement and AI governance. (Observer.com)
  4. Is your bank ready for Agentic AI? (OpenTextBlog)
  5. Transparency is key for AI use in healthcare. (Ohio.Edu)

For more information on the use of AI in compliance programs, Tom Fox’s new book, Upping Your Game, is available. You can purchase a copy of the book on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out Tom’s latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

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Innovation in Compliance

Innovation in Compliance: Data Defensibility: Enterprise Agentic AI: Governance, Auditability, and the AI Gateway Layer with Nikunj Bajaj

Innovation occurs across many areas, and compliance professionals need not only to be ready for it but also to embrace it. Join Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, as he visits with top innovative minds, thinkers, and creators in the award-winning Innovation in Compliance podcast. In this episode, host Tom visits with Nikunj Bajaj, Co-founder & CEO at TrueFoundry, about enterprise agentic AI infrastructure, governance, and hidden costs most organizations are not accounting for.

Nikunj describes TrueFoundry’s platform as a single control plane for enterprises to build, ship, and govern agentic AI applications, inspired by Meta’s internal ML stack, which he says is about a decade ahead of the rest of the industry. He argues enterprises over-focus on model and tool selection when problem definition and effective use are the real constraints. On governance, he identifies two failure modes: avoiding meaningful use cases entirely to sidestep governance risk, or trying to solve all governance problems up front and never reaching ROI. Successful teams implement application-specific controls iteratively, starting with a few high-value use cases rather than hundreds of low-value ones. He highlights that model inference accounts for only about 20% of total generative AI spend, with the majority of spend concentrated in infrastructure, engineering, and debugging, creating cost-allocation and budget-control challenges for compliance teams. For auditability, he argues that an agent without full decision traces is “a liability with an API key,” and walks through how end-to-end tracing enables audit readiness, faster debugging, and proactive attack detection. He closes by advocating centralized control via a unified AI gateway while enabling federated development and tailoring guardrails to whether your exposure surface is external or internal.

Key highlights:

  • Stop Chasing Tools
  • Governance vs Speed
  • Hidden AI Costs
  • Agent Auditability
  • Board Level Priorities

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AI Today in 5

AI Today in 5: May 15, 2026, The Blind Spot Edition

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 stories about AI to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to AI Today In 5. All, from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider five stories from the business world, compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest about AI.

Top AI stories include:

  1. Proactive ESH compliance. (Yahoo!Finance)
  2. The blind spot between cybersecurity and compliance. (UC Today)
  3. AI in healthcare: a checklist for compliance. (Morgan Lewis)
  4. Fiserv creates AI agents with banks. (American Banker)
  5. How AI is driving the digital supply chain. (Journal)

For more information on the use of AI in compliance programs, Tom Fox’s new book, Upping Your Game, is available. You can purchase a copy of the book on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out Tom’s latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on ⁠Amazon.com⁠.

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AI Today in 5

AI Today in 5: May 8, 2026, The AI Guardrails Edition

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 stories about AI to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to AI Today In 5. All, from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider five stories from the business world, compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest about AI.

Top AI stories include:

  1. US and China to pursue AI guardrails. (WSJ)
  2. Where AI in banking is running into roadblocks. (American Banker)
  3. FIS and Anthropic pair for Agentic AI in AML. (FinTech Magazine)
  4. Agentic AI and enterprise bank compliance. (Wolters Kluwer)
  5. A bot impersonated a doctor, and the company sued. (HealthExec)

For more information on the use of AI in compliance programs, Tom Fox’s new book, Upping Your Game, is available. You can purchase a copy of the book on Amazon.com.

To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out Tom’s latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on Amazon.com.

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AI Today in 5

AI Today in 5: May 5, 2026, The Affordable AI Edition

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 stories about AI to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to AI Today In 5. All, from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider five stories from the business world, compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest about AI.

Top AI stories include:

  1. Compliance answers for regulatory issues with AI. (Business Wire)
  2. Affordable AI from China. (Bloomberg)
  3. AI is flooding peer reviews in science. (The Brighter Side)
  4. Aim agents to give doctors time back. (PYMNTS)
  5. Assessing the impact of AI on fintech marketing. (The AI Journal)

For more information on the use of AI in compliance programs, Tom Fox’s new book, Upping Your Game, is available. You can purchase a copy of the book on Amazon.com.

To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out Tom’s latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on Amazon.com.

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AI in Financial Services in 5 Stories

AI in Financial Services in 5 Stories – Week Ending April 24, 2026

Welcome to AI in Financial Services in 5 Stories. A practical weekly roundup of the five most important AI developments affecting banking, insurance, payments, asset management, and fintech. Each Friday, Tom Fox will break down the top stories that matter most through the lenses of compliance, risk management, governance, and business strategy. Designed for compliance professionals, executives, legal teams, and financial services leaders, it goes beyond headlines to explain why each development matters in a highly regulated industry. The result is a concise weekly briefing that helps listeners stay current on AI innovation while asking sharper questions about oversight, accountability, and trust.

This week’s stories include:

  1. Will Mythos threaten global banking?(FT)
  2. Agentic AI reshaping bank compliance.(FinTechGlobal)
  3. Taiwan develops AI to block Chinese banks. (TheBanker)
  4. Transactions forensics. (Experian)
  5. FCA picks banks for AI testing trials. (Bloomberg)

For more information on the use of AI in Compliance programs, Tom Fox’s new book, Upping Your Game, is available. You can purchase a copy of the book on Amazon.com.

To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out Tom’s latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on Amazon.com.

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AI Today in 5

AI Today in 5: April 20, 2026, The Jassy’s Rules for AI and FinTech Edition

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 stories about AI to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to the AI Today In 5. All, from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider five stories from the business world, compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest about AI.

Top AI stories include:

  1. Agentic AI demands new cyber protections. (CX Today)
  2. Top markets for AI-driven AML compliance. (FinTech Global)
  3. Legal AI depends on trust, authoritative content, and workflows. (Wolters Kluwer)
  4. AI is reshaping medical device compliance. (Today’s Medical Developments)
  5. Jassy’s rules for AI fintech. (FinTech Magazine)

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To learn about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the modern compliance professional, check out my latest book, The Game is Afoot-What Sherlock Holmes Teaches About Risk, Ethics and Investigations on Amazon.com.